English Explanatory Dictionary

doubthouse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An uncertain state of the global climate, neither greenhouse nor icehouse, ascribed by some paleoclimatologists to the late Eocene.

Word forms

doubthouse

Etymology

Compound of doubt + house. Coined by American geoscientist Kenneth G. Miller in 1992.

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